Tech Jawa > OS X

At some point in the recent past, the LogMeIn installer for Mac OS X just got jacked. It now returns a message saying there was an error requesting the license… and sometimes getting a status message of

• com.logmein.SetLMIAccount,7
• com.logmein.SetLMIAccount,5

This is a huge issue because you simply cannot install LogMeIn with this issue. There is however a workaround available, which requires installing the .pkg for LogMeIn from the terminal.

To start, open up your Terminal.app and enter the following command.

sudo installer -pkg “~/Downloads/LogMeIn Installer.pkg” -target /

Please note that “~” in a UNIX-like OS means the users home directory. If your installer .pkg is not in your user’s Downloads folder, please change the command as required.

Also note that the above command will ask for your password.

And a final note, you may still get an error similar to the following.

Install Failed
The following install step failed: run preflight script for LogMeIn. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

THIS IS OKAY! – As long as you see the LogMeIn logo in your menu bar, then we’re off to a great start. You’ll next need to open that up, by right clicking and choosing “Open LogMeIn” and then you’ll need to just tie it to your LogMeIn account and you should be good to go from there!

Well well, if it isn’t that pesky Microsoft Office, screwing things up again.

Now if you ask me, my Documents folder should be for… well… documents. Not settings and user preferences, that belongs in ~/Library, for good reason.

If you want to hide the “Microsoft User Data” folder, you’re going to need the Developer Tools, and you can easily obtain them by inserting your OS X disk into your Mac, and just installing them

If you are unsure if you have them or not, open a Terminal and type

cd /Developer/Tools

If you get an “Error: No such file or directory.” then you’ll need to install them off the disk.

Once you’re sure you have the developer tools, then open Terminal, and type the following command.

/Developer/Tools/./SetFile -a V "/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/Documents/Microsoft User Data"

After that you might need to restart Finder for the effect to show. You can do this one of two ways… One way would be to restart your Mac, but we all know that’s not ideal, so back to Terminal we go… If you havn’t already noticed, terminal is one of the most powerful tools you have available to you in OS X. Anyhow, go to Terminal and type:

killall Finder

This command will kill any processes for Finder, and Finder will automatically restart itself.

After that, head to your documents folder/stack and you should see the changes.

It has also come to my attention that if you’re using a Documents stack, that you may need to drag an icon in/out of the stack for that to refresh as well, as it’s handled by Dock.app and not Finder.app

Enjoy your now clean documents folder.